3.5 stars Marguerite Caine’s parents are both genius physicist and have invented a device that allows the user to jump between alternate dimensions, by basically inhabiting the body of the alternate version of themselves. Before the device could be properly tested, however, Marguerite’s father is killed in a car accident and her parents’ research assistant, Paul Markov, has disappeared into another dimension with the only finished Firebird device. Her parents’ other assistant, Theo Beck, has luckily kept two of the early prototypes of the device […]
In which everyone gets the clap
Written with an easy style that informs as well as entertains, City of Sin is an eagle-eyed view of the English branch of the world’s oldest profession through the ages, from the first girls brought in chains to our shores for the sport of the Romans, right up to modern sex workers advertising on the internet, scoring publishing deals and causing the Daily Mail to work themselves into self-righteous froths. Taking in those who chose to enter the profession as well as those forced into […]
“Life itself is the proper binge.”
This book will remain forever on my shelf as something to read when I need to feel better about life, or for when I am feeling somewhat directionless. Julia Child’s memoir spoke to me on an extremely deep level. I already knew I loved her, now I idolize her. Watching her jump fearlessly from life in a foreign country in which she barely spoke the language, to cooking, to “cookery bookery” and finally into hosting a cooking show without allowing fear to hold her back […]
From Ada Lovelace to Marie Curie to Joan Jett
I borrowed this book from Overdrive as a Women’s History Month recommendation by my local library. It’s probably aimed at a slightly younger audience than myself, but I enjoyed reading it and found the illustrations just adorable. The author spends 2-3 pages on each of 100 women throughout history — their triumphs and failures, and why we should remember them. I would say I had heard of about two-thirds of them, which was neat because it’s always pleasing to find out that there are so […]
Hard to compete with a plagues, tbh
So I picked this book up after finishing Jennifer Wright’s fantastic book about plagues. I’ll never be interested in historical breakups the way that I am in plagues (who could be, really?), but I still enjoyed her writing style in this book like I did the other. Several other people have reviewed it, but in case you missed those — she basically picks 13 breakups throughout history and explains how a really terrible they were. Like, really terrible. It’s a pretty simple concept and a […]
A Mother’s Reckoning
Sue Klebold was like any other parent, thinking that a parent would recognize if something was wrong with their child, that there would be signs. That a parent couldn’t possibly NOT know if there child was planning the unimaginable. Sue Klebold acknowledges that she was wrong. Looking back, she knows there were signs, but she pushed them off as normal phases of growing up. Klebold talks about how she thought at first the her son Dylan, one of the shooters, was made to participate in […]
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